Genesis Science Mission Blog: [GSMNL] Biblical evidence for Young Earth Creation

From my previous posts we a time from Creation to the end of the flood of 1662 years +/- 5

Genesis 11:10-32 (KJB)

10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was

an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two

years after the flood:

11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five

hundred years, and begat sons and daughters.

12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and

begat Salah:

13 And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four

hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

14 And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber:

15 And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred

and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

16 And Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat

Peleg:

17 And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred

and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

18 And Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu:

19 And Peleg lived after he begat Reu two hundred

and nine years, and begat sons and daughters.

20 And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat

Serug:

21 And Reu lived after he begat Serug two hundred

and seven years, and begat sons and daughters.

22 And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

23 And Serug lived after he begat Nahor two hundred

years, and begat sons and daughters.

24 And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat

Terah:

25 And Nahor lived after he begat Terah an hundred

and nineteen years, and begat sons and daughters.

26 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram,

Nahor, and Haran.

27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat

Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

28 And Haran died before his father Terah in the land

of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

29 And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name

of Abram's wife was Sarai; and the name of Nahor's

wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of

Milcah, and the father of Iscah.

30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child.

31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son

of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law,

his son Abram's wife; and they went forth with them

from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of

Canaan; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.

32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five

years: and Terah died in Haran.

Flood – Arphaxad: 02

Arphaxad – Salah: 35

Salah - Eber: 30

Eber - Peleg: 34

Peleg – Reu: 30

Reu - Serug: 32

Serug – Nahor: 30

Nahor – Terah: 29

This gives us an time from the flood to Abahams father Terah of 222 year with variation in time of birth durring the year producing an uncerinty of +/- 4 years. Adding this to the earlier figure gives us a time from creation to Terah 1884 years +/- 9.

Now the 70 year from Terah to Abram, Nahor, and Haran is clearly the Terah’s age a the birth of his eldest son who seems to have been Haran. This is be cause Haran is rcorded as having had three children Lot, Milcah, and Iscah, and died befor Abram, Nahor gort married, futher more Nahor married Haran’s dauter Milcah further sugesting the Haran was the oldest.

Genesis 12:1-4 (KJB)

1 Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee

out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from

thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will

bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt

be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse

him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families

of the earth be blessed.

4 So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken

unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was

seventy and five years old when he departed out of

Haran.

These are the next verses after the death of Terah sugesting it occurred after Terah’s death. Note that Abram leaves Haran at the age of 75 years and Terah died at 205 years old, indcating that Abram was bon when Terah was 130 which wich would be consitent with his brother Haran being the oldest born when Terah was 70. meaning that Haran was 60 when Abram was born. In any case this gives us an aditional 205 years with an uncertinty of a year, resulting in a time from creation to the time Abram leaves Haran of 3089 years +/- 10.

Luke 3:35-36 (KJB)

35 Which was the son of Saruch, which was the son

of Ragau, which was the son of Phalec, which was

the son of Heber, which was the son of Sala,

36 Which was the son of Cainan, which was the son

of Arphaxad, which was the son of Sem, which was

the son of Noe, which was the son of Lamech,

The one gap in this genealogy is the fact that Genesis 11 omits the Cainan mentioned between Arphaxad and Salah however assuming that it also amounts to a gap in time would prbably only add a gap 30-40 years and at most possibly around 400 years but the best explantion is for Cainan’s ommision in Genesis 11 was that he died befor his son Salah was born and Salah was raised by his grandfather Arphaxad. Arphaxad was 35 when Salah was born and since most men a phyically capable of fathering a child by age 14 that meas that there is plenty of room for Cainan it have fathered Salah and then having died his son was rased by his granfather. A possible senerio could be that Cainan was born when Arphaxad 18 years old and Salah was born when Cainan was 17 and Arphaxad was 35. In any event the likely hood is that inserting Cainan would not have any affect on the time line any giving us our time from creation to the time Abram leaves Haran of 3089 years +/- 10.

------ Charles Creager Jr.

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